Earning Money on EHow: One article at a time and hope of earning $1000 a month

I recently joined Ehow.com which is a community that allows members to contribute articles in the format of how to steps. You can write about anything. Basically each article has ads on it and you get a % of the money earned from ads clicked. It's a supportive community of all kinds of writers. As of April 12, 2010, I have 14 articles that have been viewed a total of 95 times. I've only earned $0.18. There are ebooks floating around about how to earn more, but I don't want to put down $25. My plan is to learn as much as I can about keywords to increase my earnings and to write several articles a week.

My user ID is cvillelady if you'd like to read any of my articles.

There are people out there earning $1000 a month from their articles once they've written hundreds of them. Basically it's considered a mostly passive income because once you've written many good ones that attract visitors and have reached an audience with an interest in clicking on your ads, you don't really have to keep writing as frequently. The articles should be a minimum of a couple of steps and most writers report taking about an hour to write an article if it's something they have to research about first.

Check out Ehow.com to see for yourself.